Po­lice have iden­ti­fied Dwayne King as the man who was shot dur­ing rush hour traf­fic along the Beetham High­way ear­li­er to­day.

King was at­tacked just around 8.30 am by two masked men armed with high-pow­ered weapons near the fly­over at Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um. He was dri­ving his sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da along the west­bound lane of the high­way at the time.

The gun­men fled the scene in their ve­hi­cle in the chaos which en­sued, hit­ting oth­er ve­hi­cles as they weaved through traf­fic and used the high­way's shoul­der to es­cape.

The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has confirmed that there has been no obstruction to the normal flow of traffic along the Beetham Highway, Port of Spain, contrary to reports circulating via social media.

A statement by the TTPS says that following a police-involved shooting incident in the Beetham Gardens area around 6:30 am today, officers of the Port of Spain Division moved in swiftly to maintain law and order.

It says that as a consequence of the preemptive action of the police, there was no disruption in the flow of traffic.